Combined rotary web printing and folding machine.



PATENTED JAN. 23, 1906 H. A. W. WOOD.

EB PRINTING AND FOLDING MACHINE. m; MAR. 20, 1897 RENEWE'D APR. 14,

COMBINED ROTARY W APPLIOATION FIL 3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

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'No. 810,593. PATENTED JAN. 23, 1906.

H3 A. w. WOOD. COMBINED ROTARY WEB PRINTING AND FOLDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20, 1897. RENEWED APR. 14, 1905,

3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

Inventor.

. q J 4/4 KW Attorneys.

PATENTBD JAN. 23, 1906.

. H. A. w. 001). TARY WEB PRINTING APPLICATION AND FOLDING MACHINE.

COMBINED R0 D APR. 14, 1905.

FILED MAR. 20, 1897. RENEWE 3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

itnesses.

V aw 2 ma A-tto rneyi 'a-citi'zen of. the United States, residing at i very compact machine great variety of products and which will have 1 the necessaryparts thereof very sheets of drawings and in detail,

.-. -51in. the upper web- 1 preferably one over the other; in providing cutting, and folding mec enough of the parts'of'the' rotary web-print in'g' machinesand folding-machines to illustrate my invention, the 4Q.

plan view thereof.

F Referringto the drawings UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NRY A. WISE woon. OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO CAMPBELL PRINTING PRESS & MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

COMBINED ROTARY WEB PRINTING AND FOLDING MACHINE- No. e opes.

Patented J an. '23, 1906.

Application filed March 20, 1897. Renewed April 14, 1905 Serial No. 255,652.

To all whom, it rmoy concerm New York, in'the' county of New York and State of New Y; ork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Rotary Web Printing and Folding Machine', of which the following is a specification. Theaim of this invention is to provide an improved combined rotary web printing and folding mechanism whidh shall be adapted to the use .of modern-newspapers, so that. thesamewlll occupy very little height and floorspace and so that the same will produce a 'greatvariety of products. i l

- To this end my inventionconsists in arranging two double-width rotary web printmg machines'that is, eac'hmachine is capacitated to rint four pages ahreaston theweb,

'associatin mechanism so that; 'onehalf of each double-width web or a single width web cap'be led or caused to run' inthe same path as lts correslponding single-width web prov ding two on t1ld.1!18 lf01'm6IS,- 0De over the other, arrange with theirbacks to the printing-machmes, and in rovidinsz' transverse anisms to the side of each ofsaid longitudinal formers and at right angles to the .cylinders of the printing-machines.

Bythis new arrangement I can provide a which will produce a acdessible.

have shown Referring to the! drawings,

gearing and small details being omitted to avoid complication ofdescription and drawings.

Referring to the accompanlymg three igure 1 is a sectional elevation 'of my imp oved-combined printing and foldin machine. Fig. 2 is a li'ig. 3 is an end sectional view lookin toward the printing-machine,

and Fig. 4 is" a detail view, hereinafter referred to. I

I and in detail, W and W represent twoweb-rolls, whichmay be drum-cylinder 14, to

whic I der.

'sppliliding parts of this secon bars-27 and-28, so as.

single-width path of web w four or anylessnumberof a es in width. t e. web. w is drawn into the press,- led around a roller9,

around the first impressioncylinder 10, around the second impressioncylinder 17, then arounda guide-roller 24 out throu h the slitters and 26, which are preferab y arranged centrally of the press. En aging the first impression-cylinder 10 is the ing-cylinder' 11, which receives ink from form-rollers 12 and 13, which bear on the which ink is supplied by the vibrating ductor-roll 15, which takes itsI ink from the fountain 1 the second impression-cylinder 17 is the second 1printing-cylinder "1S, cooperating with are forminking rollers 19 and 20, which also hear .on the ink-drum 21, cooperating with which is the vibrating ductor-roller. 22, which takes its ink from the fountain 28. These parts are of the ordinary or approved construction and are so arranged and adapted as to-print and perfect a double'width web-that is, a .web having four pages -abreast-each of the printing or type cylinders 11 and 18 being capacitated to receive four plates abreast and two plates circumferentially, a total of eight plates to each cylin- Also arranged below this printing mechanism above. described is another printing mechanism, which preferably is precisely the same as the first. The same referencenumerals are used in referrin to the correprinting-111ae and a cipher added thereto. Thusthe first printin mylinder of the lower printing mechanism eing referred to as 110 corres onding to the first printing cylinder 11 of t up e r (printing-press, &c. The web .w, printe an perfected in the upper printingpress, ma be slit into-two sections w and W, and if a ouble-width web is used in the pppe1 machine, each section will be a width web or a web two pages wide. One of these single-width webs is led over the angleto be brought into the The two sinle-widthwebsthiis formed and thus brought into. a single path arecarried over roller 29 down 'over a longitudinal. former F. The

Itwo webs are drawn over the former ,by means of the usual drawing-rolls 30 and 31, and thus singlcst print- 6. Cooperating with 6 5 cylinders 33 and, 34, and the sheets thus formed are carried out on ta cs 35.

36 designates a rotary switch which con-- sists of two arms mounted ona rotary shaft, which. arms carry a shaft on which are mounted a number of switch-iingers 37.

38 designates a collecting cylinder, with which cooperate a set of tapes 138. r i

39 designates a number of guide-fingers, which are arranged over the tapes 35.

By using the rotary switch a sheet once folded can be guided up around the collecting-cylinder 38 and associated with the succceding sheet, so that the products of both sides of the printing-cylinders can be collected in the'ordinary manner. By turning the Switch-fingers 37 to the position shown in Fig. l the sheets can the collecting-cylinder 38 without being collected.

From the tanes and the fingers 39 the sheets pass out on guide-fingers 10 until they strike a stop at the end thereof. A; rotary folder or tucker all imparts to the sheets a transverse fold by tuckin the sheets into the bite of the transversefhlding rollers 42 and 43. The sheets thus longitudinally and transversely folded arethen carried out by tapes 4A and delivered-in this condition, any of the usual receiving devices or packingboxes bein arranged beyond the ends of the tapes 44. If desired, the Sheets may begiven asecond longitudinal through folding-rollers 45 45 by being struck by a tucker-blade 47, which is actuated at the proper time. If the sheets are passed through thefolding-rollers 45 45 they are led out to any of the ordinary packing-boxes or delivery devices 46.

The webw' printed in the lower press, is .slit in. the same manner as the upper web.

I, The double-Width web w is slit andbrought into the single-width turner-bars corresponding to and arranged under the turner-bars 2'? press, the front turner-bar 270 only showmg 1n thcdrawings Arranged under the longitudinal folder F is a folder F, and at the sides thereof a transverse cutting, folding, and subsequent-fold ing mechanism is arranged exactly as described in connection with the upper press, except that I preferably omit the collecting mechanism in the lower folding mechanism. The parts of this lower folding-machinc are similar to the parts of the upper folding-machine, and the corresponding parts in the two foldingqnachines are referred to by similar numerals, a cipher being added on to each of the numerals referring to the parts of the lower folding-machine In some cases it is necessary to bring the products of both the upper and lower presses together. This can be nicely done by lead ing the eb or webs printed alone I can print four be led directly past pagesv Wide I can print four fold. by beingpassed path by the use of the and 28 of the upper in the 1owcr"ro press around a roller 291 up to the roller 29 of the upper folder, so that the webs printed in both the up er and lower printing-inachines will be l'er over the upper longitudinal former F. i

By this arrangement I provide a machine that is very compact; It will. be seen that the operator can easily get at the turner-bars to properly lead the webs thereto and can get to the folding-machine at practically all sides thereof. It also will be seen that the floor-space.

For one revolution ders'by using either one-half the upper and one-half the lower press or byusing'one press fourage papers. By using both the upper and ower presses and by making one web double widthand the other .Web single width or each web three sixage pa ers, By running double-width we s in 0th presses Ican print four eight-page apers.

In these three operations I use both f drmers and folding-mach1nes By running a double width web in one'machine and a Web one.

pa'gewide-in the other-machine and leading. all'the products over-the-upper former I can print. two ten-page papers. By running a double-Widthweb in one press and a single width web in the other press I can print two twelve-page papers.

width web in one press and a Web three pages combined machines occupy but very little of the printing-cylin- By running a double Widei'n the other press'I can print two fourteen-page papers. By running a double- -Wi dth web in both presses I can print two sixteen-page papers. In these last three operations of course all down over the up above 0 erations t is collecting mechanism is not use By c'arr 'ng out the same operation and using the co lecting-cylinder 38 I er former F.

the products are carried In all the can still further increase the products and.

print one twenty-page paper, one twentyfounpage paper, one twenty'eight page pap er, or one thirty-two-page paper. It also will be seen that I can deliver any of these prod-- ucts with their last fold transverse or longitudinal by not using or by using the last folding mechanisms 45 ,47 or 450 470.

The machine as thus described is especially ada tcdfor news aper oflices in which one press as to be used to print various editions and many different products.

The details and gearing of the machine may be differently arran ed, and the construction herein shown and described may be varied from, as desired, by a skilled mechanic without departing from the scope of my invention as expressed in the claims.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

'1. The combination of two double-Width, tary web-printing machine's, web-turncrs to one over the other in said single-width path 20 formers and at right angles to the cylinders z 5 single-width pat two longitudinal formers both resses led over one of said formers.

5 arranged one ove the other in said singlecapacitated to bring'one half the product of mechanisms having combined therewith a each press over the other half and two longicollecting mechanism.

tudinal formers arranged one over the other 6. The combination of two double-width with their backs to the printing-machines. rotary webrintin machines, web-turners 5 2. The combination of two double-width, arranged to ringlt e product thereof mto a rotary webrinting machines arranged one single width pat two longitudinal formers over the ot er, webturners arranged to arranged one over the other in said singlebring the product thereof into a single-width width path, transverse cutting and foldln path, and two longitudinal formers arranged mechanism arranged to the side of each 0 said longitudinal formers'and at r ht angles to the cylinders of the printing-mac es, one of said transverse cutting an folding mech-' anisms having combined therewith a collecting mechanism, and web-guides arranged so that the products of the two presses may be led separately to the two longitudinal formers, or together to the lon itudinal former which has combined therewith the collectmg mechanism.

7. The combination of two double-width 6c rotary web-presses arranged one directly over the other, so that the two web-rolls are placed at the same end of the machine, slitters arranged on the center line of the machine, turners arranged to brin the products ofthe 6,5 presses into a single-wi th pathway at one side of the center line of the press, two longitudinal folders or formers arranged one over the other in this single-width pathway, and transverse cuttin and foldin mechanism arranged on the ot er side of the center line of. the press'from the longitudinal folders or formers.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence f two subscribing witnesses.

' H A. WISE WOOD.

' with their backs to the printing-machines.

3; The combination of two double-width, rotary web-printing machines, arranged one over the other, web turners arranged to r 5 bring the products thereof into a single-width path, two longitudinal formers arranged one over the other in said single-width path, and transverse cutting and folding mechanism arranged to the side of each of said longitudinal of the printing-machmes.

4. The combination of two double-width,

rotary webrintmg mach nes, web-turners arranged to rin the products thereof into a arranged one over the other in said singlewidth ath, and guides whereby the roducts of eac press may be led indepen ently to said formers or associated, or the product of 5. he combination of two double-width rotary webrintin machines, web-turners arranged to rin t e product thereof into a single-width pat two longitudinal formers width path, transverse cutting and fol mechanism arran edto the side of'each 0 said longitudinal ormers, and at right angles to the'eylinders of the printing-machines, 46 one of said transverse cutting and'folding Witnesses:

, HLW. Oozznns, J11, Louisa PEOKHAM. 

